About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Monday, May 14, 2007

May 14......

May 14 is the 134th (135th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Foreign Policy "Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." — Jimmy Carter

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "Rail as they will against discrimination, women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.... The mama builds the nest." — Pat Buchanan

Thought for the day: "Most campaign literature is an insult to intelligence. Sad that many never realize it."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1004 - Henry II the Saint crowned as king of Italy

● 1027 - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France

● 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.

● 1607 - In Virginia, on the first Sunday after the arrival of the Jamestown Expedition, Anglican priest Robert Hunt, 39, held the first Anglican service in the New World. Named chaplain of the expedition to Jamestown, Hunt was also the first Anglican priest to come to America.

● 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.

● 1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.

● 1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

● 1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain.

● 1812 - Luddites involved in Loughborough Market riot.

● 1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile

● 1845 - Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens

● 1853 - Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk

● 1856 - U.S. President Franklin Pierce unofficially "recognized" the government of American adventurer William Walker, who had set himself up as the pro- slavery dictator of Nicaragua. Walker was later deposed after he interfered with Cornelius Vanderbilt's transportation network.

● 1856 - The editor of the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin was assassinated by a rival newspaper owner. A vigilante group seized the assassin from the sheriff, then tried, convicted, and executed him.

● 1931 - Ådalen shootings, five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union manifestation.

● 1932 - Death of John Hughes, 59, Welsh rail official and church worker. During his life, Hughes composed a number of hymns, including CWM RHONDDA, to which the Church today still sings "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah."

● 1935 - The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.

● 1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

● 1940 - Death of radical feminist anarchist Emma Goldman, Toronto, Canada. Goldman had been barred from living in the U.S. since 1931 due to her political beliefs; in her last months she focused on raising money for anti-Franco forces in Spain.

● 1940 - World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.

● 1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.

● 1940 - Admiral Furstner departs to England

● 1940 - German breakthrough at Sedan

● 1940 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production

● 1941 - 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested

● 1942 - The British, while retreating from Burma, reached India.

● 1942 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded

● 1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

● 1944 - 91 German bombers harass Bristol

● 1944 - British troops occupy Kohima

● 1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise

● 1945 - US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered

● 1945 - Plutonium is injected intravenously into a human subject in an experiment carried out by the Los Alamos scientific laboratory. In all, 18 people were similarly tested between 1945 and 1946.

● 1948 - After nineteen centuries of enforced exile, the Jewish people regained their homeland when the State of Israel was formally proclaimed in Tel Aviv. On this same date, the U.S. became the first world nation to recognize the newly-refounded state of Israel.

● 1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel and Israel declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab states.

● 1957 - Cheers as petrol rationing ended; Relief across the country as the paymaster general announces restrictions on fuel consumption imposed during the Suez crisis are to be lifted.

● 1960 - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule

● 1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.

● 1962 - Ex-President Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years

● 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

● 1963 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations

● 1964 - Nasser and Khrushchev divert the Nile; The Egyptian and Russian leaders end phase one of the construction of the Aswan High Dam by blowing up a huge sand barrage to divert the course of the Nile.

● 1970 - Jackson, Miss. - Two students watching from a nearby dormitory tower are shot and killed by state police, and 30 others are wounded at anti-war demonstration at the primarily African-American Jackson State University. Ensuing two days of riots in Jackson result in curfews and sealing off of the city.

● 1970 - Seminole tribes of Florida and Oklahoma are awarded $12.2 million for lands taken "under duress."

● 1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.

● 1973 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.

● 1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

● 1974 - In the Anglican Church in England, the Rev. F. Donald Coggan, 64, was named the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury by Queen Elizabeth II, succeeding former Archbishop Michael Ramsey.

● 1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed

● 1975 - French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia

● 1975 - U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.

● 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast

● 1977 - In Milan, Italy, during a demonstration of the far-left, a hooded extremist shoots at police, killing a policeman, Antonino Custrà. The scene is photographed and the picture of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street will appear in many magazines around the world.

● 1978 - First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.

● 1980 - Some 600 Salvadoran refugees are killed attempting to cross the Sumpul River from El Salvador to Honduras by government troops from both countries.

● 1980 - U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.

● 1981 - NASA launches space vehicle S-192

● 1982 - Guinea adopts constitution

● 1984 - U.S. returns Waadah and Tatoosh Islands, off the Olympic Peninsula, to the Makah Nation.

● 1999 - North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.

● 2001 - Scientists warn of more CJD cases; Variant CJD - the human form of BSE or "mad cow disease" - has been found in 99 people so far - but scientists warn a "second wave" in several years could be much larger.

● 2001 - The Supreme Court ruled that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses.

● 2002 - Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.

● 2004 - The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

● 2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.

● 2005 - Ex-America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.

● 2006 - Much of New England is hit with a massive flood, forcing people out of their homes and causing millions of dollars worth of damage.

BIRTHS

● 1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)

● 1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)

● 1645 - Francois de Callieres, French author and diplomat (d. 1717)

● 1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)

● 1679 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)

● 1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)

● 1701 - William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)

● 1703 - David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (d. 1785)

● Roman Catholic:● St. Boniface of Tarsus● St. Carthach the Younger● St. Engelmer● St. Engelmund● St. Erembert● St. Just● St. Maria Dominic Mazzarello● St. Matthias (Apostle)● St. Michael Garicoits● Sts. Victor and Corona● St. Vincent of Lerins

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.